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India’s first space-based observatory to study the sun is to be launched on September 2, weeks after it became the first country to land a spacecraft on the unexplored south pole of the moon, reports Al Jazeera.
Monday’s announcement by India’s space agency the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the Aditya-L1 probe will study solar winds, which can cause disturbances on Earth and are commonly seen as auroras.
The craft, named after the Hindi word for the sun, will be launched from the country’s main spaceport in Sriharikota using the PSLV launch vehicle, which will travel about 1.5 million km.
It will take the Aditya-L1 about four months to travel to its observation point, ISRO said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The spacecraft will be fired into a halo orbit in a region of space that will give the craft a continuous clear view of the sun.
“This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real time,” it said.
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